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For Your Post-Holiday Enjoyment, Healthy ID Snacks

Among other design inspirations, the “ultimate non-stick coating” developed at McMaster University is based on the lotus leaf.  Read More ›
Artist’s impression of exoplanet orbiting two stars

Exoplanets and the Fermi Paradox

Contrary to first impressions, exoplanet discoveries actually strengthen the impact of the Fermi Paradox. Read More ›
Artists’s impression of one of more than 50 new exoplanets found by HARPS: the rocky super-Earth HD 85512 b
This artist’s impression shows the planet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 85512 in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sail). This planet is one of sixteen super-Earths discovered by the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory. This planet is about 3.6 times as massive as the Earth lis at the edge of the habitable zone around the star, where liquid water, and perhaps even life, could potentially exist.

Are We Alone in the Cosmos? Here’s a Real Paradox for You

The problem is, none of these people cite papers or other writing by researchers on intelligent design, like the work done by Douglas Axe on protein evolution probabilities. Read More ›
Milky Way

Updating the Drake Equation

The Drake equation is simply the product of a set of factors, estimating the number of active, technologically advanced, communicating civilizations in our galaxy. Read More ›
Golden Record

If No One Can Play It, Is It Music?

Archiving music in DNA for future generations sounds promising, as long as the playback directions are not forgotten. Read More ›
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Image credit: NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Alien Physics: Scientist Offers Novel Escape Hatch from Intelligent Design

It's a good day for some rather underwhelming attempts to evade scientific indications of ID. Read More ›

SETI Astronomer Says Life’s “Not All That Special” Even as His Own Program Suggests Otherwise

SETI Institute has yet to detect any echo of extra-terrestial intelligence. That's a big part of the reason that SETI had to shut down, for lack of funding, its Allen Telescope Array. Read More ›

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